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I've learned after many months on this board that the best way to deal with grief from the loss of a fish is to - get another fish. And, while I don't regret a moment of my experience with dwarf cichlids, I think it may be time to move on. While at my LFS on Friday, I noticed these two in a...107 replies 10K views
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Dear everybody, I am setting up a 12-15 gallon fish bowl (yes it’s that big) and I need an interesting fish that will eat some snails but get along with 10 or so tetras & some cherry shrimp. I like bladder snails- They have a cool personality, they zip around the tank pretty fast and they do a...12 replies 2K views
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Hello! I hope someone here is more knowledgeable than myself on this matter. I am currently cycling my aquarium, dosing ammonium chloride (Tim’s) and the ammonia is at 1ppm and nitrite .50ppm mis it safe to have the plants in the aquarium during this chaotic balancing stage? I’ve only ever...3 replies 325 views
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Well, brief story is that I started seeing a very small amount of thread algea beginning in my unpopulated planted tank. I did a bit of research and found out that these guys will eat it, and not bother the plants too badly. I was going to get SAE's, but the store didn't have any. Well, these...3 replies 10K views
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Reddit says nitrate or phosphate defficiency. I've been dosing phosphate and have gotten it from zero to somewhere between 0.5-1ppm(that test is so hard to read...) and my nitrates have been a steady 5ppm. I don't want them higher on account of the red plants. I also dosed some potassium for the...1 reply 226 views